Ezra 10:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

Make confession

Do his

Hebrews 13:21

Separate

Ezra 9:1

Nehemiah 13:3

2 Corinthians 6:17

And from the

Deuteronomy 7:3

1 Corinthians 2:12

General references

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

Make confession

" 'But when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility--

And Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please, give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and give him a doxology in court. Tell me, please, what you have done; do not hide [it] from me."

I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' {declares} Yahweh."

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Do his

Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!

For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

Separate

After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

So it happened when they heard the law that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel.

Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

And from the

And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

General references

We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land nor take their daughters for our sons.